tomc1985

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by tomc1985 5y ago
Last I heard the standard practice was that animals were stunned and then dealt a killing blow. Is this not true? > but I think we should at least call a spade a spade to start. Watching r/natureismetal and David Attenborough docume
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by tomc1985 5y ago
There's no reason to need to take a "moral" stance here. Our rights as consumers to have and hold things without third-party DRM are being systematically ignored, and we are being forced into a bullshit rental model where no
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by tomc1985 5y ago
What moral ethics? A natural predator will eat its prey while it still lives, providing a slow and painful death. While I agree that livestock living conditions mostly suck, at least we provide a quick and painless death.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Piracy is also great for this
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Because it's storytelling. I'm sure you can look up the 'facts' on Google News like everyone else. But personal experiences don't lend well to such summarizations
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I'm sorry but seeing those price tags next to all that wonderfully weird art totally kills it Information wants to be free! So stop trying to charge for it!
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Why do we have to 'be in awe'? That sounds like marketing copy.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Darknet Diaries tells its stories through interviews with people who were there and the podcaster's own experiences and research. I am not sure I would call the account 'factual', but he makes his best effort to get as close
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Can we please have all these supposedly super smart dudes stop trying to think for us? If there is one thing that I hear way too much out of intelligent, moneyed minds, is that people need to be controlled.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
All I can is that I found my tribe (a Burning Man theme camp/artist collective/event crew) by repeatedly showing up at parties and events in my local music underground scene. Eventually we were all comfortable enough that I was we
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Can't you build an array of smaller (say brushless DC motor) propellers to achieve the same thing? I could have sworn I saw a guy on Youtube do that and hover around his backyard in a home-made frankendrone comprised of a ton of props
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Not at all. I am simply describing my experience with salescritters as a SWE. A good company gives Engineering a seat at the table but sometimes you have to deal with things imposed from higher up. This is especially true in a large company
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> Marketing teams know that as well, and they exploit that as much as they can. They exploit this mercilessly , just as hard as they exploit our curiosity and desire for novelty as engineers. To the GP, your company's marketing&#x2
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> What “marketing minds” are making decisions about service architecture? This seems like an imaginary issue. It is hard to hold this comment in a generous light (per HN rules) when some of my most poignant experiences in dealing with te
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Salutes go out to the folks who can handle microservices, because they have always been a pain in the ass for me. The world needs more libraries, not services
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Tech in general seems to be all about what is good for 90% of users and fuck-all for everyone else. It seems like anything servicing the long-tail anywhere gets squished. In hiring, in user interface design, in features, and in competition.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Yet another facet of the infantization of this trade
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Hey now, fintech is a real banc!
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Yup! I remember hearing murmurs of LIBOR's unsuitability but didn't see much of a reaction. Wonder how things are now
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by tomc1985 5y ago
It measures the backroom sensitivities of the cabal of bankers that set it, judging by recent news releases
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Yeah but it's not nearly as sexy
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by tomc1985 5y ago
LIBOR is often part of the formula for calculating loan interest rates. Last time I saw such code it looked something like: LIBOR + bank's minimum interest rate + a rate based on creditworthiness = your offered interest rate Planet Mon
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Man I'm glad I don't work for a fintech right now, there's a lot of very complicated code with LIBOR as an input
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I had the privilege of sharing office space with the engineers at a former employer, with at one point sitting next to a chemical engineer on my left and a mechanical engineer on my right. The former spent all day analyzing formulations and
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Huh, Fort Bragg is a lot closer to Crescent City than Oceanside. I would think the earliest time would be the center of the incoming wave?
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> My understanding is that a blockchain is supposed to be distributed, trustless, permissionless, immutable and open. A blockchain is just a data structure. That description is more befitting of Decentralized Finance/DeFi
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by tomc1985 5y ago
As an alternative, AnyDVD HD can trasparently strip the encryption off a Blu-Ray disc. I haven't tried it with any Ultra HD discs but it works extremely well for traditional Blu-Ray.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Oversized vehicles also feed their owners' egos. And display wealth. Practicality as a factor is in the rear-view mirror, so-to-speak
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by tomc1985 5y ago
As a privacy nut I would be a lot more into this kind of tech if it didn't require connecting to the cloud.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Q2 is pretty boring compared to modern shooters, but it is one of the last games from it's particular vintage style of corridor-shooter FPS, and it does it better than it's priors mechanically. Full 3D, autorun, mouselook, none of

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